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Mac OS X Secrets of the Elite
anti-drew writes "Stepwise has posted a list of fantastic secrets in MacOS X, which reveals all of the hidden features that you just knew were lurking in there, including preferences you can set from the command line to make everything 10% faster, and extensive class libraries and undocumented Objective C APIs that take all the work out of coding. Literally. Check it out!"
April 1st post? :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
I espcially liked the Compiler directive:
--dwimnwis (Do what I mean not what I said)
Kind of like WYSIWYG, or WYWINWYS (What You Want Is Not What You Said.)
I wonder if the new documentation explains the ID-10T errors?
I was looking for that setting... Great article!
Oh, God, when will this stupid-assed holiday end?
It would be funny if there were one or two joke stories. But this just ruins the "Slashdot experience" for a day every year. Annoying and funny are not the same thing, editors.
--saint
I hope it has a feature that allows you to turn off april fools jokes. Anything that lessens the tide of fools joke spamming is a plus in my book.
The angel in the oatmeal.
I'll contact The Hague and let them know the International April Fool's Treaty has been violated.
Well.. Yes, it does...
They decided apparantly that Mac's need a "sleeker" Slashdot interface.
If you want to e-mail me, use my PGP Key.
from the stare-into-the-abyss dept.
MEEPT! wrote in to report that the famous troll site goatse.cx has been shut
down under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by a gay linux industry trade group called the
Alternative Network OS and Gay Anus Penetration Enthusiasts. Michael S, an ANOSGAPE spokesman,
was quoted as saying "goatse.cx has made a mockery of the anal fisting industry, and left themselves spread
wide open to litigaytion. We hope this anal action will send a clear message to this "trolling" community
that wide-open man-holes are not a laughing matter." The goatse.cx webmasters were optimistic, however,
stating that the graven image, now sacred to trolls and crapflooders everywhere, was found in the
pubic domain and was in no way infringing on any GAPE copyright.
Similar sites such as Comp-u-geek and "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porno!" were unaffected.
Who in their right mind would want their very serious issue/product/idea/news to be posted an April 1?
Be it so plain as "this statement is true", noone will ever believe it in any context, bar idiots.
The FIRST THING many people do when faced with a dubious, or controvesial story is CHECK THE DATE.
Anything Apr1 is tagged <Disinformation type="Humourous">
So stop whining, and go away
What? Try being British, and a student, at a technical university, volunteering in a students union. Now that's sarcasm! Fun times though.
:-)
Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.
Has been redecorating...
Best Slashdot Co
Well, no one said you had to read it, did they? Are Taco and Hemos standing behind you with a shotgun forcing you to read /.?
Look at cybercrime.gov.
Best Slashdot Co
OK, I've about had it with April Fools, and I have a suggestion to end this nonsense. I call it "The Great Slashdot Moulting"...
:)
... WOOHOO!!!
Every year, when April 1st comes along and the Slashdot stories are nothing but repetative joke-fare, all of us with karma > 20 should flood the system with crap, ALL POSTED AT +1 bonus. First posts, Second posts, 50th posts, Taco's wife ain't so hot, whatever...
Better yet, if you've got mod points, mod the crap UP.
Evryone blow all their karma IN ONE DAY... (-3 per post * 17 posts is about -50 karma). Then on April 2nd, create a new account and start over for the year.
The system will clog up with so many moderator requests it will either break the system or they'll actually HAVE TO STOP POSTING THIS CRAP on April 1st. They can't put us all in jail! Or that whatever that user flag that Taco appears to be weilding around like a penis replacement. Bwahahaha!
What the hell is karma good for if you can't burn it all in one amazing burst of glory? And imagine everyone doing it at once. An orgy of reverse karma whoring
Let the modding war on this post begin.
Apple Announces Next Version of Mac OS X
New Version 10.2 To Be Available For Macintosh And Pentium 4 Computers
CUPERTINO, California--April 1, 2002-Apple® today announced Mac® OS X version
10.2, the second major upgrade to Apple's UNIX-based operating system. Mac
OS X v10.2 will deliver significant performance improvements and new
features and will add support for Intel® Pentium® 4 computers. Mac OS X
v10.2 will be available at the Macworld Expo San Francisco during the week
of July 15, 2002.
Mac OS X v10.2 is the ultimate digital hub, with the ability to create a
music library and burn music CDs with iTunes, burn data CDs from the Finder,
make movies with iMovie(TM) 2, watch DVDs with the DVD Player and create DVDs
with iDVD.
Throughout the operating system, Apple has ensured that Mac OS X v10.2 fully
leverages its UNIX-based design, significantly increases performance and
provides new features. The groundwork for Pentium 4 compatibility was laid
two years ago when Darwin, the core of Mac OS X, was made available for
PowerPC and Intel platforms under an open development model. Since then,
Darwin customers and developers have helped make it a powerful and efficient
operating system. Because Mac OS X v10.2 is identical on Macintosh and
Pentium 4 computers, applications written for one can be made to run on both
with little or no additional development effort.
"With this new version of Mac OS X, Apple brings the most advanced operating
system on the market to computers using Intel Pentium 4 processors," said
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Mac OS X v10.2 includes the Aqua(TM) interface and
allows users of Intel-based computers to experience the performance and the
ease of use which Macintosh users have enjoyed for years."
Availability & Requirements
Mac OS X v10.2 will ship this July and will be available as a full retail
package through The Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores
and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129
(US). Mac OS X v10.2 will be available for current Mac OS X users as an
upgrade package through Apple's Mac OS Up-to-Date program for $19.95 (US).
Using Mac OS X on a Macintosh computer requires a minimum of 128MB of memory
and is designed to run on the following Apple products: iMac(TM), iBook(TM), Power
Macintosh® G3, Power Mac(TM) G4, Power Mac G4 Cube and any PowerBook introduced
after May 1998. Using Mac OS X on an Intel Pentium 4 computer requires a
minimum of 128MB of memory. Refer to http://www.apple.com/macosx for a
complete list of hardware compatibility.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple
II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the
Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing
experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers
around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet
offerings.
Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Apple Store, Aqua, iBook,
iMac, iMovie, Power Macintosh, Power Mac and PowerBook are trademarks of
Apple Computer, Inc. Intel and Pentium are trademarks of Intel
Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
It's always been a stretch. The trick to any good AFJ is to come up with a good, yet outlandish, prank, and a delivery so brilliant and so believable that people fall for it, such as the infamous write only memory ad.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
Are you crazy? Do you have any idea how long it took me to build up this much karma? Thinking up all this funny, insightful, informative crap ain't easy, you know!
Besides, this karma is going to cure cancer and grant me a seat on the secret spaceship that will be traveling to Mars when the Krulls return to destroy the planet in 2012. And I'm not going to blow it.
iTivo
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
sucks... It sucked when I was a little twerpy geek in HS and it sucks now.
/service/slashdot
I long for a mac os X that works, just like everyone else. I am forced to investigate crap like this. It takes up useful time.
You rarely see a real geek running a screen saver because it wastes cycles. Slashdot is like a brain-saver on 100% processor usage on April 1st. Just another useless line dump from ps that needs to be purged.
the traditional solution:
ps -A | grep slashdot
27213 pts/2 1:20:05 slashdot
kill -9 27213
the daemontools solution:
svc -d
whatever. Time to get something useful done...
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
we're in good company ;-)
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
Secrets are quite often "intended" features that were never fully implemented, or ended up being more support hassle than they were worth.
The main software that our group puts out has a few "secrets" too... things that sounded cool at the time, or things that were put in by developers to help them debug their code or use it while it was still half-baked.
Now, having said that, a few of those secrets are still pretty cool... but as the Product Manager, I'd hate to have to support people using them, or having problems with them (after all, we never did get to do extensive QA on those features). The features are there, but not documented. If you find them, great. If you have problems, great. Don't call me about them. q:]
MadCow.
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
You wrote:
ps -A | grep slashdot
27213 pts/2 1:20:05 slashdot
kill -9 27213
When you meant to write:
kill -9 `ps -A | grep slashdot | awk '{print $1}'`
or, slightly more efficient:
shutdown -F now
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
I have that same release, it seems. I got a .img file from edonkey that turned out to be actually .img.sit, which then did not de-stuffitize itself on the imac, but did on the pc, producing puma something blah blah macosx .toast, and now I can't do fuck all with it.
/. posting all this nonsense. (/. editors would get into real trouble if we had another terrorist attack like 9/11 on 4/1 as everyone would think they were making a sick joke...)
I tried an dfs iso -> real iso program but it said the file wasn't a multiple of (something) long.
And btw, I wouldn't worry about being off-topic. How can you possibly be off-topic on April-Fools' day with
graspee
If you'd said that it was for the Itanium I would take it seriously.
I recently ran across a rumor (on Slashdot, so you know it's guaranteed!) that Apple, Compaq, etc. were going to be merging this month.
Well, after a bit of thought, I decided that it made sense. The 64 bit chips present a whole new ball game, and one can expect "great and frightening changes". So just suppose you create General Computers on the model of General Motors. You place Apple where Cadillac was, and HP where Chevrolet was, and, O, Compaq where Buick was. (I don't really know my cars, so I forget who the middle tier players were, but you get the point.) Now Apple has their custom *nix layer (Darwin) and a really snazzy interface, and a bunch of fans, etc. They'll be likely to be the big cheese here, and get most of the stock, but there'll be shares for everyone, and one real benefit is that everyone gets out from under the heel of MS.
This sure doesn't sound like a sure thing to me, but it sounds like a plot with real potential. And it would explain the HP/Compaq merger/fight so nicely...
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
- (NSScaryThought *)Steve:(id)Jobs nakedAndPetrified:(BOOL)hotGritsFlag
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
> Well, after a bit of thought, I decided that it made sense. The 64 bit chips present a whole new ball game, and one can expect "great and frightening changes".
The Macintosh uses the PowerPC chip which has a 32-bit and 64-bit version on the architecture (although currently only the 32-bit versions are currently made), so when Apple wants to transition to 64-bit, it will have an easier time than everyone else (assuming that by then Motorola or IBM make 64-bit chips) because it can just keep using PowerPC.
I'm hoping 64-bit makes it into the G5. It was supposed to into the G4.
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
The chips Apple uses are currently only 32-bit (even if there are possibly 64-bit chips out there), but the _architecture_ has compatible 32 and 64 bit versions (and yes, I mean address bus and register size) - therefore a really easy migration path (do a web search for something called "Book E").
And PPC smoking Pentiums? Unless you are talking about Altivec or Photoshop, what are you smoking? I mean, they are really nice chips, but sadly they just haven't kept up with x86 for speed (although I still plan to keep using Macintoshes for the forseeable future).